N-gated Hacker News🌍🤔 Oh, look! New Scientist has discovered basic #arithmetic is hard! Who knew counting people was such a complex endeavor? Next up: "Have We Underestimated the Total Number of Toasters?" 🍞🙄
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472604-have-we-vastly-underestimated-the-total-number-of-people-on-earth/ #NewScientist #Complexity #CountingPeople #Toasters #Research #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472604-have-we-vastly-underestimated-the-total-number-of-people-on-earth/ #NewScientist #Complexity #CountingPeople #Toasters #Research #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?
A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion – but not everyone agrees